Rutger Ulsen Hauer

Rutger Hauer is a Dutch and American actor who has starred in both popular Hollywood blockbusters and independent films, as well as foreign (for an actor) projects. He has appeared in Russian, Chinese, Polish, Romanian, Swedish and Australian projects.

In addition, Rutger Hauer has achieved some success on the other side of the screen, having released a number of projects as a filmmaker, screenwriter or producer.

American actor Rutger Hauer was born on January 23, 1944 in the Netherlands. His father and mother were associated with the theater, often toured. A nanny was involved in raising Rutger and his three sisters. At the age of 5, Hauer was already on the stage.

He grew up as a naughty child, raved about adventure. At the age of 15, Rutger ran away from home and hired a sailor on a ship. He spent almost a year sailing, during which he saw different countries of the world and their customs. During this period, he realized that he had a craving for foreign languages, and began to intensively study English, French and German. Hauer was fluent in these three languages.

Probably, he would have remained a sailor, if not for vision problems. Rutger Hauer is color blind, like his great-grandfather. After the end of the flight, the guy returned home, studied at night school, and during the day worked part-time at a car wash, in a carpenter's shop, in a theater.

In 1962, the future actor moved to Switzerland and entered the theater university in Basel, but two years later he joined the army as a private. He didn't like serving, so he had to feign a mental disorder. Rutger spent several weeks in a psychiatric clinic, after which he was demobilized - he continued his studies at the institute. Basel University was not enough for him: having received a diploma, Hauer continued his studies at an acting school in his homeland, and then began working at the Royal Theater.

Rutger Hauer played his first episodic role in the cinema in 1968 in the film "Mr. Hawarden", however, during the editing the frames with his participation were cut out. In 1969, he starred in Floris, which was a successful start for the aspiring actor. In 1973, the film "Turkish Sweets" was released, which immediately became an Oscar nominee. Then there was a multi-genre work in the paintings "Cunning", "Flesh and Blood", "Orange Soldier".

Hauer played mostly positive characters, but he realized that he had already outgrown Dutch cinema. The actor decided to try his luck in Hollywood. At Dream Factory, he made his debut in Nighthawks in 1981. This work was followed by several more successful roles and worldwide popularity. Rutger Hauer starred in the films "Blood of Heroes", "Blind Fury", "Betrothed by Death" and others. To get rid of the European accent, he had to take language lessons from American teachers. In 1987, Hauer starred in Escape from Sobibor and received a Golden Globe for it.

In the 90s, he began to collaborate with small film studios - his popularity began to decline. This continued until 1996, when he appeared in the film Call of the Wild. This project was followed by "Merlin", "Tenth Kingdom" and others. In April 1999, Rutger Hauer was named the best actor of the century in the Netherlands.

In 2000, he made his directorial debut: his short film "Room" won the Audience Award at the Paris Festival. In 2006, he directed the film Tango of the Starfish.

In the new millennium, Rutger Hauer also did not remain without major roles. Moreover, the actor is filmed literally all over the world. In 2001, Rutger Hauer landed the lead role in the Brazilian-American project Flying Virus. The film follows a mad scientist who genetically modified bees to become weapons of mass destruction.

The actor got his next leading role in 2004 in the Romanian comedy about taxi drivers "Mentor". A year later, Hauer appeared in the title role in the Australian action-adventure movie The Adventures of Poseidon. The film showed the shipwreck of the transatlantic liner Poseidon. Two and a half thousand passengers, who recently celebrated the end of the year, are on the brink of survival and turn into a maddened crowd.

In 2006, the audience saw Hauer in the lead role in an American film. The actor played in the psychological drama "Mentor", which tells about the obsession with power and how a university professor controls the lives of his own students and assistants.

In 2011, the actor played the main role of the artist Pieter Bruegel in the Polish-Swedish drama The Mill and the Cross, dedicated to ten famous paintings by the author and the plots behind them.

In the same year, the actor got another major role - in the Canadian thriller "The Homeless with a Shotgun". Rutger Hauer played the role of a vagabond who arrives in a new city for him and faces a terrible lawlessness: robbers and murderers rampage everywhere, prostitution flourishes. At first, the tramp tries to act according to the law and turns to the police, but, having received a refusal there, he buys a shotgun with the last money and goes to administer his own justice.

In addition to these films, the actor's creative biography was annually replenished with several secondary roles, often in high-profile and popular films. Among his recent works are the projects "Key of the Salamander", "Clones", "Depth", "Galavant".

In 2016, the Cannes Film Festival premiered the drama Mata Hari, based on the biography of the famous dancer and spy Mata Hari. In this film, the actor played the role of Judge Stollbakken.

In 2017, the premiere of the film Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets with the participation of Rutger Hauer was released. The actor played the role of the President of the World Federation.

Also in 2017, the actor appeared in an unusual, especially for a Hollywood actor, project - in the first Russian-Chinese feature film "Wii 2. The Secret of the Dragon's Seal." The picture continues the plot of the film "Viy" directed by Oleg Stepchenko, but goes even further from the motives of the story of the same name by Nikolai Vasilyevich Gogol that gave the film the name.

In addition to Rutger Hauer, the film also starred other world stars: Jackie Chan, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Charles Dance and Martin Klebba.

In 2018, Rutger Hauer appeared as Joseph Peach in the television anthology horror series Channel Zero. The third season, in which the actor played, was named "Butcher's Block" and tells about the fate of two sisters who move to a mysterious city, where they face terrible incidents.

Rutger Hauer has been married twice. At 22, the actor became the husband of Heidi Merz. Soon they had a daughter. But the birth of a child did not save the relationship. The actor considered that marriage a mistake and only regretted that after the divorce he had not seen his daughter for a long time.

Rutger's second wife is sculptor and artist Ineke Ten Keith. She, like Hauer, was born and raised in the Netherlands. For 16 years they lived in a civil marriage and only after that they decided to legalize the relationship. Rutger and Ineke raised a joint child. For most of the year they have lived in California, where they have their own mansion.

In personal communication, according to the members of the film crew who had a chance to work with Hauer, the actor was a wonderful and open person who "will laugh to tears and smoke all the tobacco supplies."

On July 19, 2019, Rutger Hauer died at his home in the Netherlands. The cause of death of the 75-year-old actor was a disease that quickly undermined his strength. For a short time, the body of the movie star struggled with the disease, but in the end the artist left, despite the efforts of the doctors.

The legendary actor was buried on 24 July.

2001 - "Spy" 2005 - "Sin City" 2006 - "Minotaur" 2008 - "True Blood" 2010 - "Honeymoon" 2011 - "Wilfred" 2011 - "Heineken's Abduction" 2012 - "The Coming" 2013 - "2047 - Threat Death "2014 -" The Scorpion King 4: The Lost Throne "2015 -" The Last Kingdom "2016 -" Mata Hari "2017 -" Viy 2. The Secret of the Dragon Seal "2017 -" Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets "2018 -" Channel Zero "

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